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Japan stop over
On our way to America we had an 11 hour stop over in Japan. The boys and I thought we'd get a visa for the day and go for a look around Japan. The speed train took us directly to the city from Narito airport which was roughly an hour away. The train ride was a bit expensive setting us back about $100 AUS each but very much worth the experience, not many people can say they have experienced sushi in ...
Real Japanese experiences
... energy, and charm; the onsen (hot springs), especially the outdoor ones, where you're in a 40 degrees pool of really good water with the cold air and steam above you; koyo, the autumn colours of the leaves, that make mountains and views truly breathtaking; Japanese food and sweets, including this area's specialty, "inago" (crickets!!! We only tasted ...
Japanese country life
... just like humans! It was amazing to be surrounded by so many of them, so close to us! They are so entertaining to watch! They are really used to humans and they act like they don't even notice us. Only the boss sometimes would scare people (and other monkeys) off.
Then we stopped at Obuse, a small town where the famous painter Hokusai spent the last years of his life. It's a ...
Live from the Japanese Alps!
... Japanese lunch with our hosts, and on our way back we saw an animal on the road: at first I thought it was a dog, but as we got closer and it jumped ahead of us, we realised it was a monkey!!! We didn't see it anymore unfortunately. But here they say that when the monkeys can be seen, it's because they can feel that the rain is coming... hope that's not the ...
Mt Asama and onioshidashi
... route back, again at super-slow speeds. Miraculously we found our way back to the hotel without argument or incident.
Once back, we headed to an Italian just around the corner. It turned out to be more of a cafeteria than a restaurant, but still we ate spaghetti Genovese with an avocado salad and were grateful! Kevin spotted an unusual urinal, that seemed to have handles for drunken Salarimen. (Mostlikely it was the disabled.)
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